Sanders is coming to Texas as new polls show him gaining steam in the Lone Star State. In University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll conducted from Jan. 31 to Feb. 9, Sanders was winning the support of 24 percent of Democratic voters in Texas. Biden was second at 22 percent. It was the first major poll of Texas voters in almost a year that didn’t show Biden as the leader.

Texas and its 228 pledged delegates are looming large in the Democratic primary field in which none of the leading contenders have been able to break away from the field after early contests in New Hampshire and Iowa. Texas votes on Super Tuesday along with 13 other states.